Slim Dusty – Port Augusta (Guitar)

[Intro]
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C              F                   C
Life in Port Augusta, things don't change

               F                  C
Life in Port Augusta, remains the same

               G                     F
The world goes by and the world gets strange

          G      C
Except in Port Augusta

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Road trains rollin' through the night   to anywhere

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Headin' north to Alice or west out on the Eyre

C                           F
People they keep passin' by,  just like the time

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Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth on down the line

    G        C
Way down the line

C              F                   C
Life in Port Augusta, things don't change

               F                  C
Life in Port Augusta, remains the same

               G                     F
The world goes by and the world gets strange

          G      C
Except in Port Augusta

C                             F
Out there on the bypass doin' business night and day

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Fast food multinationals sellin' plastic take away

          C                               F
While the shops in town are closin' down, dried up dreams on stony ground

    C                             G             F
You wonder why it always seems to   end up this way

G        C
Same old way

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Nobody seems to question or even wonder why

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Some towns get forgotten and left alone to die

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While out there on the highway faded signs

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Of glory days and memories in time

     G       C
Port Augusta time

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And the older generation in silence fade away

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No work for the younger folk no reason left to stay

    Am               G                 F
And out there on the highway there's a sign

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“Find a better future down the line

    G        C
Way down the line”

C              F                   C
Life in Port Augusta, things don't change

               F                  C
Life in Port Augusta, remains the same

               G                     F
The world goes by and the world gets strange

          G      C
Except in Port Augusta

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Mhm-Mhm-Mhmmm

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Mhm-Mhm-Mhmmm